You hear it right! Now the Salesforce Platform Developer II exam is made more easy with realistic tasks and flexible deadlines (Actually no deadline, in other words, set your own deadline :P)

Salesforce recently introduced changes in the path for attaining Platform Developer II (PDII) Certification. Earlier, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II (PDII) certification had two steps. Firstly, we must appear for a proctored multiple-choice question. After successfully passing the first step, the candidate must complete a technical assignment and get it reviewed. The time taken to get Platform Developer II certified was generally around 6+ months.

The New Change:

Effective June 28, 2017, the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II (PDII) certification will again have two (but simple parts) parts:

Proctored multiple-choice exam

4 Trailhead superbadges. These superbadges replaces the Programming Assignment and thus intended to be useful in gauging candidate’s knowledge on advanced, real-world business requirements covering features, concepts, and scenarios that are essential for a Platform Developer II to know, including Apex programming, data integration and more.

Two of the superbadges, Apex Specialist and Data Integration Specialist, are available today on Trailhead. The remaining two superbadges are currently in development with an ETA before the end of 2017.

Update [31-Jan-2017]:

Hurray! The long wait is over now. 2 other new super badges are out as well. Lightning Component Framework Specialist and Advanced Apex Specialist. You must note that the last Super badge(Advanced Apex Specialist) gets unlocked only when the prior 3 super badges are completed. So go ahead and blaze all the super badges guys!

Debugging in Developer Console and its components (refer Salesforce Help Doc here)

Using SOAP/REST web services and its best practices.

SOAP API parameters

REST annotations

Types of APIs in Salesforce and its basics

VF pages with Javascript remote actions

Dynamic SOQL and its limitations

Visualforce tags (Tip: Not the basic tags)

List, Set and Map collections in apex

Workflows and Process builders (Tip: If process builder is an option in Ans, Think twice. Mostly that would be the ans. Don’t blame me if you get it wrong. 😛 )

Debugging run time errors from sample code. (Tip: there could be multiple bugs in the code. Look for the line which will cause failure at first in the order of execution)

Know about Debug logs and how to debug via debug logs, and setting the parameters for debug logs.

Chatter and how apex can access chatter programmatically

Pagination in Vf pages and best practices

Hope you had an idea on all the areas to cover. In addition, to these go through the Official Study Guide to see the weightage of topics for the exam. Also, I advise to go through the following references to read on the additional study notes:

Am so glad to hear this. Please email me at guhaanandhnec08@gmail.com about your experience. I would love to feature you in the success story article. 🙂 I will also email you the details for the next steps to complete this certification.

That’s Awesome Sathish. You need to complete 2 other Superbadges. 1 is Lightning Component Framework specialist. There is 1 more super badge yet to be released. So we all have to wait for Salesforce to release that super badge.

I cleared pd2 multiple choice exam. I have started on the super badges salesforce suggested. I have few queries on how we update the completion of 4 super badges and how it gets linked with our pd2 multiple choice exam result. It would be very helpful if u could share any info on how pd2 multiple choice exam and 4 super badges gets linked. 🙂

just link your trailhead account with webacceessor and shoot a email to support …. for me it as done within 15 min once the salesforce support response. but first u should link ur account . the process is provided in web accessor